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I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month we cover the St. Louis RPM That's the railroad prototype modelers meet that was in Collinsville, Illinois An absolutely amazing show with a lot of guests, interviews, modelers, manufacturers The one thing about this show is that we had a lot of mom and pop new start-up companies Which we will also talk to you on this show But first I'm standing here with Larry Harrington From Bachman Industries all the way from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania And Larry's going to tell us in this month's video some of the amazing new products from Bachman Industries Hey Larry Hey Ken, how are you doing today? It's awesome to see you in person Good to see you in person Yeah, I was sort of Skype all the time So yeah, we're here in the NMRA National Convention National Train show And we got our brand new announcements for a lot of new products in there Some of those which we don't have samples for yet But we do have a good number of items that we can show you here at the show Starting off we really have gone to make some new large scale items in 1 to 29th scale We just announced that the show, we have the 100 ton Bethlehem steel hoppers And they have those in four different road names That's absolutely beautiful Yeah, it is isn't it? We did Philadelphia Pennsylvania Power and Light, it's a really neat paint scheme Plus some of the favorites to CSX, Union Pacific and Pennsylvania Very cool We have the end of train device here which we've shown before But I think that's maybe the first time we've shown an operating sample That it will operate on battery or track power or both So if you're running track power and you stop the train The light still comes on, it switches back and forth automatically between track power and battery That's awesome The new diesel large scale announcement is the GP40 People have been requesting this one for a while We will have that in four road names that will be, let me get my brochure out here to remind me CSX, the Norfolk Southern scene here Santa Fe and Union Pacific I don't have the non-proprietary interface board that allows you to put DCC Or radio control, battery, all that stuff if you want to do it Depending on if you run track power or whatever It's got all the options there for you to do that We announced previously the Evans car and the train device on it But we're also going to have them without the end of train device on them So you can expand your fleet, it's easy to do Since we just put this regular truck on instead of the end of the train device The Evans car is very beautiful One road name that we don't have here is going to be the Tropicana Blue boxcar With the silver roof, very striking paint scheme I like that rail box The rail box is nice, there's the Santa Fe Beautiful And the Norfolk Southern as well Nice work Larry It's so exciting, now you've got some ATO scale models you want to talk about as well Yes, we actually announced our new chemical tank car Let me show you that here We have two versions of this This is the small dome version And we'll have this in four total road names There will be two small dome versions and two large dome versions Let me get this Here's the large dome version Basically the cars are the same other than that It has a nice catwalk area at the top Wire handrails Safety rails around the top It's a silver series car with metal I mean metal wheels and then there are Mark II Couplers that we use on all of our silver series rolling stock That'll be in four different road names And also we're going to go to end scale If you see here we have our HO Gerter Bridge And we've got our shrink ray out and made it an end scale now So you can just drop that into your lap Yes exactly, it's made with the easy track connectors So it'll easily just go together And if you don't have our easy track system It's compatible with anything with rail jointers So all you have to do is clip off the two little attachments there And you plug it into whatever track system you're using Larry I always love it when you show the viewers of what's neat All the new products every month And be the first ones First kid on the block to see it I always get to see them first, then you get to see them second And so with that now let's continue on with the rest of this September What's Neat For this month's What's Neat We are at the 15th annual Railroad prototype modelers meet here in St. Louis Actually in Collinsville, Illinois And with me I've got Joshua Sugarfire Barton James Regear and Mike Buddy from the podcast crew And we are absolutely enjoying this show 38,000 square feet this year It's the most square footage ever And Joshua, there's some numbers and a lot of exciting stuff And I asked you last year, have you spent any money? Of course I have spent money There's 115 tables of models to see too And 56 vendors Of course I'm going to spend my money That's a silly question There's a table full of Santa Fe stuff Literally staring me in the face right now I know, those are a hundred dollars a locomotive too Beautiful There's a lot of exciting things going on For this video we've got scheduled about 11 different interviews With mom and pop and new manufacturers And some of the ones, some of the staples That you've seen in the past on the show Plus there's some amazing layouts here this year Mike, what do you think? I haven't seen any of the layouts I've just been walking around looking at the vendors And mainly the models But yeah, there's a lot of models here I haven't seen the models One thing that seems very prevalent this year Is there's a lot of brand new spring up companies Printing 3D models James, have you discovered that? I've definitely seen a lot of them I'm not one of them yet Okay, that day's coming So with that guys, get excited Sit back, get a cup of coffee and enjoy this What's Neat Show? The RPM Meet here in Collinsville, Illinois I'm here with Jimmy Pottsburg From JP3D And we're checking out some of his new amazing things And this is longer than I am I can't believe about it Tell us a little bit about this, Jimmy So this is my modular terminal elevator Almost eight feet long So the basic unit is the center tower section And two end sections And then as thick as your wallet is You just start adding expansion units And I can make it go from one side of the room to the other It's endless Wow, and you offer these in all different kinds of sizes So if I'm O scale, or S scale, or HO How small do you go? Z scale? I've got Z scale stuff He has Z scale stuff, everybody Check him out Let's talk about these a little bit This is Kirkwood Station In Kirkwood, Missouri Down in front there, yes Is the Kirkwood station that I had hoped To get together for the show Didn't quite make it, but that's okay People that know what Kirkwood is You can see and pick that out I'm close to being done It's a great model, exciting model A great looking model, I think And I think a lot of people are really excited about it So I'm looking forward to it And then I love these corrugated buildings here You have that great curve in them That you have to be at the right Angle to see But these are very, very neat That's called a Balan Building Made by Balan Corporation They're flat grain storage buildings Beautiful looking buildings So there's an S scale, H, O, N And Z scale model of those Wow, that really shows the depth Of what you can get out of one of these 3D printers These are all amazing What other new stuff do you have over here? One thing I forgot to tell you This modular terminal elevator You see over here, it's almost 8 foot long 41 days on a printer That's print time Wow, that's amazing Yeah, so one of my New creations, special project for a gentleman Is this elevator here This HO scale Actually an elevator out of Kansas City, Kansas Was originally built in 1919 It's made out of cement block The silos over here The building, the center tower section First story in half is brick And then cement block on up You don't see many of these The first one I've ever seen I think they couldn't stand up to all the pressure Of the grain and stuff like that So they've been replaced And then they added on to it Standard silos From a smooth silo The amount of texture difference In between these I'm not sure if you can get those on camera But it's amazing What these 3D printers are kicking out So tell me about this one down here This little elevator in the corner What do you do in the corner of your room? Tough thing to feel How do you feel that The Josh Barton Corner elevator So when I was down to visit a while back Josh spotted my flat elevator And said what is that A corner elevator and I said no it's not But I just got an idea So thanks to Josh Barton You have a corner elevator now That I 3D print Well thanks I appreciate that And your things are all so amazing What's the website that they can check All your stuff out at www.3DModels.com Thanks for letting me interview I appreciate you It's great, thanks, great Having you guys at the show To spread the word, thank you Thanks I'm standing here with Pete Munger You remember his diorama last year With the Walthers motel And the Atlas lumber yards And all the beautiful scenery But this year Pete you brought something Absolutely brand new with you Well thanks Ken It's nice to be with you And to see you again this year Thanks for doing this for all of us Really enjoying the expanded format here We got a little more room for models More historical societies And dealers this year It's pretty impressive We're fortunate aren't we Best hobby in the world And this is a great venue to have this show at It really is But anyways I kind of created something this time That I wanted to be able to feature Those beautiful tangent High cubes that David's crew Has spoiled us with And then, you know, Intermountain's Brought those steel coil cars back out And It kind of fits the era that I'm after With the 70s So I wanted to do something that kind of had An automotive industry theme That would allow me to display some of those cars And so that's what this is So we've got an old Walther's kit here That was like the Arnold's driving From the happy days show With the fonts And Richie and all those kinds And I redid that as a pizza place And it's kind of an internal thing for me Because I named it after my mom, Trisha's pizza She was great with The way she would make pizza For my high school buddies and I So this is kind of in memory of my mom The Detroit to the shoreline Is my area, I live in Toledo And that was a bridge line with Detroit So it gives me an opportunity To represent the stuff I saw in my hometown With automobile stuff Being brought south through my town And we've got an Atlas caboose And a couple of tangent high cubes From David's tangent company And then we've got the Steel coil cars And, you know, the key to these things And Ken, you know this Because you've kind of schooled us on all this The weathering Is just can make a difference Yes. You know, Steve Hurd Is a good friend of mine from just south Of me who's here And Joel Nicodemus They weather those cars for me And it really makes all the difference in the world So I view the Dio as kind of being A canvas to display some of their stuff It is. And then we've got the Walthers, I can't remember if this is Maybe the grocery warehouse kit Bashed to those That's a centerpiece of this diorama That's kind of the focus and we I call that scarlet fire That's the name of the steel company I listened to some Jerry Garcia music For dead heads out there They'll know that the combination was scarlet Legonias and fire in a mountain They call it scarlet fire, so I borrowed that And then at this end We've got the west end This is the east end of scarlet fire With more of the tangent The high cubes And the air mountain And those wonderful Walthers Also painted in the Detroit And then These build-up kits that Woodland It's really hard to ignore Them being build-ups We try so hard To try to duplicate these things And it's amazing what they're cranking out With some of these Pre-manufactured buildings Look at the Uncle Sam On the side of that brick wall I think how hard it would be To do that with decals and solvus set And weathering chalk and all that stuff And so that was already on the building That's already on the building It's just really a nice model Your trees are beautiful Tell me about the trees Those are just scenic express I kind of Choose to go a different way With the color of the tree What modelers do We have a tendency to go with the dark green look But where I live I sure like that spring look And that green actually Is very, very Accurate of the way that the trees look In my part of Ohio In the first half of the year And I think it kind of brings life To the module itself When you're using static grass It's absolutely beautiful Just like last year's diorama I can tell you honestly have a passion And all of the different things that you've brought Into this from your childhood and your memories It's amazing the way you do that You weave it in Well thank you Ken, I appreciate those comments And that's why this One of the reasons why this hobby is the greatest hobby In the world, we get to kind of grow up From where we were when we were little kids That's it From Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars to this Amen Pete, thank you so much It's awesome to have you on the show again Thank you Ken I'm standing here with Steve Day From Lundy Studios We're all so familiar with that Wonderful company that gave us design Preservation and Magnuson models And so many of the structures that we have On our beloved layouts Steve, it's absolutely a pleasure to meet you Honors to you sir And I want to tell you what We went to Vic Smith's layout last night And saw an amazing Layout All those buildings I'm blown away Right It was amazing And a lot of those buildings are the ones that you guys Produce and manufacture Absolutely And he's taken them to an nth degree And just tricked them out with detail Absolutely And he was featured on the What's Neat Show Back in July And it was awesome to see that Which I saw by the way And then I saw it in person I know right So you brought some wonderful buildings To share with all the viewers here And at the RPM meet Right How has the show been for you? The show's been great This is my first time being here And I heard about it I read about it And what I love about it Is this show Is with modelers, for modelers And about modelers We display our stuff out on the table Everybody walks around You get new ideas There's clinics here So even a guy like me Can learn how to up this game That's awesome So tell us What did you bring today To share with the viewers Okay we got a couple of things here These are all in scale Which is what I do These are three of the buildings That we are currently putting out You have the Bates Motel Next to it you have Butcher's Block And then next to that is the Blair Trust That's a beautiful structure Buildings are all made here in the U.S. Right in Eureka Springs, Arkansas They are a resin cast And Bob does all the design of the buildings He does everything with a milling machine There's no computerized anything in there Okay And we cast all of the stuff right there in the shop Next to that we have our snail ways bus station This is one of our best selling kits And what I did in this particular model I tried to give it that Art Deco look Everything you see there comes with the kit With the exception of the vehicles And the people But you get the stand You get the back retaining wall And there's even a coke machine Back where the bus is parked And then next to that We have our smallest little building Which is the Kelly's Cafe Now we also offer that All of those buildings with the exception Of the bus station in HO as well Okay So we do HO and in scale Now we've got two new buildings coming out That you guys haven't seen yet But will be at the Inamari Nationals Okay And in the back here We've got a couple of Walters kits New distribution center And then we have the red wing building here I put that together a while ago And then we've got the Rick's Mac building That goes together really well And then again when you watch Ken Patterson's What's neat this week in model railroading You get inspired I saw the young man that did the DOD train Yes And I had to do one myself In in scale In in scale So what you do is you take HO stuff And really hot water shrinks down Okay R-R-R That's absolutely amazing Now one of the things I wanted to do here On camera live So we've got witnesses Okay Alright Because Ken does a little bit of in scale And I'm an in scaler And we want to push that up a little bit Okay Me and the guys over at Lundy Studios In key rail industries We want to present you with two buildings Over here we've got Butcher's block And we've got the Kelly's Cafe Already put together Already weathered a little bit So you could just plan them on the layout Okay And then we've got the complete model kits As well So if you guys want to put them together Or have me come down Put them together Or we throw them at a wall Whatever Oh, okay Well that's awesome You can just pour some blue in the box Shake it up You've got a model kit There you go That's how it used to be With the blue boxes Well that's really cool Steve thank you so much For this presentation We will put those on the in scale layout Make you proud Yes sir I appreciate it I always say it all the time This is the best hobby in the world And I haven't said this on this show yet It's because of folks just like you See And what do we say after that Rock and roll baby Rock and roll I'm standing here with Dan Darnell And Matt Gentry Of Repito Trains Out of beautiful Canada And they've got a lot of new products Here at the RPM meet That are seen for the very first time In fact Matt told me a few minutes ago Some of these models just showed up Yesterday morning So it's the first time you've seen them as well Starting with you Dan Tell us about some of these wonderful models Starting off here We've got our new E8 sampler And this one is actually set up For the anniversary edition In the special collector's case And we will have all the other flavors Coming later than wrong Okay Then we move on to our new Chevy Caprices Which I think you've already reviewed And whatnot Yes, Mike Buddy loves those Yeah, and we're working on a few other licenses So we will have more in the future Okay And we move on to the M420s here We're redoing the Canadian National version As the rebuilds But we're also adding Iowa Interstate And Providence and Worcester So those guys will be really happy to know that Very nice And then we move on to the RS18Us Which are CP Rail Chopnose Canadian National RSC14s And then we have a list of Second run RS11s That will be coming Everything from New Haven Right through to North Pacific and Central Whole bunch of different ones It's plastic brass The detail is exquisite Yeah, that is real brass It's brass 2.0 basically Our new roar turbo train That's beautiful Can I touch it? You can pick it up Yeah Daniel, this is gorgeous This is just like the prototype photos That I remember seeing when I was a child I remember walking through it as a kid Right Niagara Falls that came in And they took me on a tour I've been 10 years old And we have our new Bombardier commuter cars Okay These just hit the market about a week ago So you can see the under frames On it We have full roller bearing Axles on them They're all electrical pickup The cab car Which we don't have here Has full functioning end lights And it also has a 21 pin board In there to put a decoder with speaker So if you want to do the bell and the horn It's all equipped for you Moving on Long down here We have our new sodium chloride cars These are used in the paper industry Moving sodium chloride For leaching of the paper We have two versions With the safety rails And without the safety rails It's amazing that The pre-production samples Look so beautiful You almost don't want to paint them Exactly We have the barrel ore cars For Canadian National and O&R They were released a few months ago They're out on the market now Then we have our new 66 foot Canadian bulkhead flats In four different versions Four different versions Different jackpads Different end bulkheads Different end sheets Different decking So you can cover all the Canadian cars As well as the B&SF cars That came about Very beautiful And then the only other thing I have on here Are the Canadian truck trailers Which are over there The two small ones near Matt Matt has the American versions here And I'll pass you over to Matt Matt, Gentry Look at these beautiful Lumber load cars What are the technical term for those? Those are 73 foot center beam cars That is the NSC prototype And those Along with some locomotives We'll get to in a second That is what literally showed up in my door 20 minutes before I got in the car To come to this show I saw them for the first time Just like all the RPM attendee Saw them for the first time Friday morning So this is Sort of what I'm saying The really early phase build With the zigzag roof And then the later phases Is whenever they went to the solid roof panels And then also the deck Without the risers on it So multiple different variations Multiple different paint schemes There are thousands of these cars Really large opening For us to come in with this car Really looking forward to it I wouldn't cover them up with wood I know, they're beautiful aren't they? Again, don't want to paint them And then the other Big surprise that we had for the show Were the first samples of our EMD GP38 locomotives On the right The first one that Daniel is looking at That would be the Santa Fe prototype And then the other one here The Southern with the high head So multiple different versions That we're doing with these Multiple different details body Variances for the first Announcement run that we're doing For all the different road names And now those are going to come with sound? Sound in DCC or DC silent And then moving on We've got some of our early Samples of the northeast caboose That's a Bill Schneider project And then we've got some of Bill's X3 tank cars These are some early tooling samples Again, these are still getting some tweaks And fine tuning done to Before they enter full production Back over here we've got The American Froyhof Trailers, we've got That would be a 40 foot exterior post Trailer And then this one here is a 35 foot Integral post trailer And then this one here is a 40 foot insulated Reefer trailer That's a lot of different inventory products To keep track of And this is a 20 foot 26 foot As we keep moving down the tables Here we've got some of our Late tooling sample U25Bs These are getting ready to go into production So this is basically what the models Are going to look like We're pretty happy with the injection shots With the thumbs up and off we go And then moving on This is some early sample FA Locomotives FA2s Are you coming out with those in Missouri Pacific? These are the Canadian versions right here So no MP on that Not yet Not ever actually And then These are PAs, correct? These are production samples of our Much anticipated Alco PAs They were printed at the warehouse in Toronto this past week So those should be shown up At people's door probably within the next Two weeks I would say They're exquisite and beautiful I used to have a set of those made by I believe it was oriental or key And they were plated in brass But you've created that effect on these models Right, we've got some special Painting techniques that we worked with On our factories to get that Really reflective Shine back on the models So Matt, and then we've got some of our Production samples of Our auto flood free rapid discharge Coal hopper, this has been one of the Best selling projects That Rapido has come out with And they're on the water right now On their way to North America I'm super excited about these coming I'm a Coal hopper dork But also this is my first project With Rapido Very cool, I love the Coal load It's very nice So those are on the web And then Oh look at the interior detail Interior detail, the way we Design the car with the sides to be Separate, we were able to put all the rivets On the inside of the car and have the K Members in there just like the prototype car So this is In my opinion the highest detail rapid discharge Coal hopper on the market That's very cool And what weight there's more There's still more, this is Our early tooling samples of the Bud Slumber coach So they're still working out A couple of design and tooling tweaks On this car, so those Are still open for pre-order And they'll be getting ready to go into Production on those probably next year sometime Very cool I would Say the Missouri Pacific might be Possible And then these are production Samples of the Pro Corp 55820 plastic Pellet hopper car These just Got reviewed within the last couple Of weeks and those should have just shipped From the factory this past week as well So they'll be showing up in North America in about the next Eight to ten weeks I would think As long as there's no shipping issues Fantastic, and I see in-scale stuff here And we have in-scale stuff This is the autoflood three in in-scale And this is a production sample For the next week and so They'll be wrapping up production on those Within the month of August and shipping And then the B100 box car in in-scale Those are about to land And should be at the Warehouse in Toronto within the next couple of weeks Very cool And to round it out I see in-scale passenger cars That's right, we've got our Bud in-scale passenger cars What's the prototype on those Dan? Oh, it's the Canadian cars We did it two years back But now they're coming in Very nice You guys have got so much new product here It's amazing you can keep track Of all it, but I'm so happy That you're doing this for the modelers out there That's right Talking to the gentleman at Repito I'll tell you what, this was a very good segment With a lot of neat stuff I'm getting tongue tied, this is amazing I'm standing here with Aaron Piotraski And the one thing we said In the opening of this video Is that there's been a lot of spring-up new companies That are offering 3D printed models That have never been available before In our hobby And Aaron I want to say you are the youth In the hobby, as you said you are 20 years old Congratulations And thank you for doing what you're doing For us in the hobby Tell us the name of your company and describe some of your products Well, my name is Aaron Piotraski This is Apogee Locomotive Works And a lot of our products Are detail parts And freelance and prototype shell kits A lot of our shell kits For the prototype stuff Is designed to be Kind of an open canvas So the concept is to have a locomotive shell kit That is Has all the detail Except for the defining detail So that little 28-tonner down there Could be an electric inter-urban switcher It could be a little gas mechanical diesel It could be anything And it's a really good opportunity to turn Something that's kind of daunting Something that's kind of intimidating Like locomotive kit building And turn it into something that's open Something that A beginner can take Or an expert can take Something that kind of redefines it In a new way So you've done a lot of research You've got great packaging You've also probably thought about the various mechanisms To power some of these models with Is there a website or a place Where this stuff can be seen? Yes, we have a website ApogeeLocoWorks.com You can take a look at all our shell kits All our detail parts Some of our more structural stuff Like draw bars, frames And we're constantly adding more stuff Because it's a big hobby And there's a lot of prototype There's a lot of freelance stuff to do There's so many things that can be Innovated in the hobby Yeah, so ApogeeLocoWorks Is our website And How many years have you been doing this now? Well, I've been doing ApogeeLocoMotiveWorks For about two years now I started early July 20 Yeah, July 4th of last year And ever since then I've just been adding more and more shell kits I only started doing the freelance stuff This year Well, thank you very much We hope that the folks enjoy this And go to your website and check it out Yeah, thank you Happy to be here I'm standing here with one of our most favorite manufacturers And one of our most favorite salespeople Jim Wiggin From Athern Trains in Champaign, Illinois How are you? I'm doing great, Ken. How about yourself? Fantastic. Now you've been with Athern now for two years Tell me how much do you love working in the hobby Look, I love it. Absolutely love it That's awesome. And you guys are working Partially remote and now in-house again Things are starting to get a little back to normal, aren't they? That's right, Ken. We're doing A hybrid schedule And two days a week we go into the office And you know what? It's good That's absolutely fantastic Now, I've seen your Athern Tuesday show That you guys produce. It's getting a lot of views And you guys have got some good production quality Values now as you do it But you've announced a lot of new products Can you summarize a few of those for us today? Yeah, let me tell you two big projects that we've got Okay? California 2 And California cars HO Scale Genesis They are the most ambitious project We've ever had. We worked very closely With Amtrak on these Just the lighting alone There's 25 LEDs in each car Interiors are Painted to match the prototype So these are going to be the most Prototypical modern-day passenger cars That you can get Genesis level And they've got sound So station stop announcements We got it I saw that the new Veranda turbine that's coming out You guys have revolutionized the use of Sugarcube speakers to give that sound its depth And I hear you're putting two of those into Veranda Talk about that We're not only doing that, but like our U50s We're putting four of them Four Sugarcube speakers in there Dynamic sound We're here for two days at the show Have you been spending any money? Well, maybe a little bit You can't not spend some money When you come to an RPM like this That's awesome. Next time I get out the champagne I'll buy you lunch. How's that? That sounds like a great plan. I know a place So with that, thank you Jim for Sharing your new products and some of the things on this show Is there anything else before we close this one? Well, you know what? Like I always say Do some good modeling Be kind to others and high greens Be sure to check out the ather and Tuesday show That they do every week announcing the new products Alright, thank you Ken. Pleasure to see you Thank you Jim. Thanks Every year at the RPM meet We always talk to Steve Hart Because Steve is always Making a new large scale model It seems like every year And this year you've done it again Tell us about this This is an amazing model between us right here And we're going to shoot B-roll and show it As you talk about it. Tell us about this Caboose's restaurant Yeah, this is a caboose It used to be in Buddha, Texas It was made from Frisco's number 1700 caboose It got moved there, turned into a restaurant And stayed there a few years like that Before eventually it got moved The land's been developed and it's long gone But I stumbled on to a picture of it One night and immediately Like most of my projects it just clicked I said I've got to have that and started in And I started this This was originally going to be my 2020 project And then when we couldn't do a show We kind of got sideline But it was for this year So yeah, it's come together Got it finished up and Now you took a USA trains Is that the name of the company? That made the original Wide Vision Caboose And then you had to modify it Tell us what you had to do Those 1700 series cabooses were made out of Old 40 foot PS1 boxcars And so the USA trains The caboose they had was the wrong length Obviously the wrong sides to it Windows and all that But at least gave me a starting point So I could take it apart I made the stretch in it Which was about two inches I had to add To the model And then I built a new cupola for it New windows, drip edges, all that Then I could cut in the new window locations Add all that I had to strip the roof walks off And then make the pieces where the roof walks should have been To make it look like it just Been removed by the railroad And you built picnic tables Now this is a Mexican restaurant And you showed me the bottles The Corona bottles have Lemons in them A friend of mine that owns a company Called Three Inches Under Jim Schultz is his name He found out about my project We lived near each other And he said he would help me out And he made little Corona bottles And then he printed the Corona labels for me For being a Mexican restaurant And so when I put them together Then I made little limes to put In the bottom of it And I've got to give my son Dominic credit Because it was his idea that he thought They all needed smashed limes in the bottom So he got the credit for that He made the picnic tables And made the silverware All the trash bags The trash to go with it Like the deep freeze The refrigerators all that Are all made from blocks of Renboard or basswood I cover it with styrene Then I can glue on the pieces I want From there so they're all Scratch built from blocks like that And then just built up until they looked like What was in the prototype So I found Eight or ten pictures of the prototype While I was searching for things Which is more than I usually have for a project So even though it wasn't easy To build from it was at least I had both sides and the ends And everything so So far all the video everybody's seen Is with this tin roof Off of it why don't you put the roof On and show us how that goes It looks better with the tin roof on It just sets on top It looks more Realistic that way But it makes it so dark underneath It's hard for anybody to see And I want to be able to check out what's underneath So if you look at the On the inside of it I've made like the Like somebody just walked away from a meal Or end of a busy night So there's the cups, the silverware The menus are in the Things like hot sauce Green and red There's menus And part of it's in Spanish On there, so yeah Trying to make it as close to the pictures I could find. I'm going to get on the other side of you Because Joshua probably had a hard time filming that I know right, but the B-roll will make it up Joshua thank you for running camera For us, we love you buddy And Steve I just am blown away at your work Your artistry is amazing. I want to thank you So much for the what's neat vehicle That you gave us last year It's a lovely display in the studio I love it And I hope to have you out tomorrow night Yes absolutely, I'd love to be So I always enjoy it Alright Steve, thank you so much Thank you very much Ken I'm here with Chris Palamiri From Home Shops And this is a relatively new company That we would like to talk about here Chris tell me some about some of the stuff That you got going on Well we've got for the first time ever All seven road names of our very first car Which are tangent scale models PS-4750 covered hoppers Done in seven road names And we're selling them here at the show For $50 a piece Also very excited Dave Lellback of Tangent put that V&O tank car on our table yesterday That is the factory sample of our second car We worked very closely with Brad And Alan McClelland of the V&O And have come up with the company service car In our third production model Is these 86 foot Tangent scale models box cars They're in production right now At the factory in seven road names And we hope to have them in December Maybe January Shipping conditions cooperating And we also have for sale This painting lithograph by Robert West It depicts a shop setting With all seven cars Of our first road name In a shop setting being worked on By mechanical employees So we've got that here as well Wow, how long have you been established As a company? I launched this car Company in January of last year January of 2021 And this factory order was placed In April of last year by Tangent And we just got them in a couple of months ago So it's a lengthy process to get the cars in Wow, you were Definitely off and running They're so beautiful The names are great I know you've done a lot of personal work On some of them that we've reflected on The what's needs show So I'm just flabbergasted by what you have And Mike Buddy's going to love those Cars. Yes he will I appreciate the compliments and the kind Words. Well thanks for coming And we look forward to what you're having Next after this. Awesome We'll do our best not to disappoint Alright, thanks. Thanks Joshua Layle box from Tangent Models and What amazing things He has on the table. What are these boxcars All about Dave? Well thanks for coming Over here. Yeah we have some new Gunderson brothers 50 foot exterior post High-Cube boxcars here at The RPM meet. We have them in Four paint schemes. We have SP DRGW, Golden West In the blue and Cotton Belt in the 1980s version We also have kits available for all of our Products. Very nice I know these high-cube Boxcars are just going nuts I know Mike Buddy buys one Every time we go out He probably has three or four dozen of them And they're just amazing And I cannot stop talking about These cabooses here The Illinois Terminal are just Amazing. Tell me a little Bit more about those. Sure We offered those cabooses Last year in September There were We offered them in several Illinois Terminal schemes The red ones from The original red ones and then several Of the repaints 1979 One and also a 1972 Or so football one We're really into the IT cars And they match that New York Central Prototype really nicely. So it really Worked out well for us. It's a caboose That I originally was going to start tangent with That was one of the things we're going to start Off our company with so Very nice and how long have you guys been established Tangent was first We first announced tangent at The Detroit National Train Show And we had our Pullman Standard 4740 Covered Hopper at that show It was the first time anyone had ever heard of tangent We had products for sale that day And people were like who is this company That's a great Shock and awe method to start your company So I love All the wears you have. Thanks for coming to the RPM and thanks for talking with me Well thanks so much. I personally watch the show Every week and big fan So thanks to you guys and all the work That you guys do to make this thing happen Well thanks for watching and thanks all of you For watching too. I'm standing here With Bill Denton and this amazing Module track End scale layout. Now you Remember Bill from last year He shared with us Those amazing city modules With that code 40 track And hand laid switches in end scale Which was absolutely magnificent In last year's RPM show That we presented but today Bill you're standing among this Beautiful module layout that takes Up the entire center hallway Of the convention center here. Tell us About this work of art. Thanks Ken Well this is end scale module Track and We have about 25 modules here today We do have more That we could bring The layout itself is about 60 feet by 10 feet We have been as big as 60 feet By 40 feet We're running out of trailer space Actually. But the group Started out in the Chicago area But now we have and it's just a bunch Of friends. We're not actually a club Or anything. There's no formal Organization or meetings or do's Or anything. We just get together At about three or four train shows A year and run our trains. Very cool. Now this is built At a great height where you can See it. It's built for adults to look At. What is the height of this? It's 53 inches and somebody measured it Yesterday because he didn't believe me. Okay. But yeah That's the whole idea was we wanted It up at a height where people could Actually see end scale instead of looking Down on the tops of everything. Right. That's a great idea. What's the minimum radius on this layout? Well we don't really have A minimum. We have Really sharp. We have really big curves Right. They're I think about 60 inch 60 inch curves. They're beautiful When I see trains going through that curve It looks so realistic. And thanks and they're super elevated as well. That's awesome. I also noticed You didn't use rail joiners on this That the modules butt together and the rail matches Up doesn't it? Correct. Correct. It saves a lot of time In setting up the layout. Okay. Yes. We are using Atlas code 55 track For the most part. Okay. My older modules which were the first ones Were built uses the pico code 55 track. It's a beautiful rail It's just absolutely amazing. So you set this up for About four different train shows Around the Midwest I guess. Yes Generally in the Midwest. Wisconsin, Indiana Illinois Area. Do you have a place where You guys can enjoy this and set it up When you guys want to run it? Not currently No. We did in the past. Okay. And hopefully sometime in the future We will but as of right now, no. What kind of system do you use to power This beautiful layout? It's Digitrax. Digitrax. What else Would you like to describe about this? Well it's kind of mostly based On the walkie road and Chicago Northwestern towns in the Midwest And Most of the prototype locations Have been researched and we kind of Copied the track as it was in the towns And even some of the buildings are Built to Reflect the locations. Now you were discussing this with me Yesterday. This is one of the modules That you built and Joshua was going to Move in and shoot these structures As you talk about the train station That you built off of plans. Yes. This is New Lisbon, Wisconsin Which is roughly half way between The Chicago and the Twin Cities And it's where I rode the train As a child and I Have great memories and I think Of the trains. So I always wanted to Build this location. So the station is scratch built Out of styrene. It had a Stucco exterior. I was Fortunate to get the plans For the depot. And also I wanted to point out That little building in the back Was a candy store and I remember Going in there and getting Candy with my mom And my grandmother. They sold Coca-Cola and burgers in there As well. That's awesome. And you said this module Next to it is a continuation of the Scene. Yeah. The next module Is the Has a Y on it and it's a Branch line that went up to Wausau Actually it's still there on the Milwaukee Road. There's not much left in New Lisbon. There's one main track through town But the branch line up to the north Is still there. This is absolutely exquisite. I mean this is seriously One of the center point layouts of the show. Oh thank you. It truly Is beautiful. I've got to tell you Bill thank you so much for sharing this with The viewers of What's Native. Oh thanks for stopping by Ken. We enjoyed it too. So that's it. You've seen the 15th annual RPM meet Here in St. Louis in Collinsville, Illinois. It was a great show In that they had about 650 Attendees at the Show over T5 Tables I think he said full Of models. It was Absolutely amazing. And Did you spend any money, James? Yes. Yes I did. He just bought that whole table of Santa Fe's there. We're not going to divulge the price But he needs a new home. It was absolutely amazing. Daniel what did you think about the show? I think it was great. Despite the fact that I was working Yesterday but being able to come here today With phenomenal models, great sales, great Comradery and a lot of fun. There you go Joshua what do you think? A lot of good friends I'm glad to see everyone again this year I'm already anticipating next Here. Yes The 16th annual RPM meet Absolutely. I'm ready for it. Guys this is the best hobby in the world And this is Ending the RPM video For What's Native. Let's go To your house and run some trains. Run some trains. All the products seen on this episode of What's Neat Are available from Lombard Hobbies In Lombard Illinois Or order online at LombardHobby.com Bachman Trains Now that's the way to run a railroad Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com